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Book An Account of the Awful Sufferings of the Crew of the  Mary

Download or read book An Account of the Awful Sufferings of the Crew of the Mary written by and published by . This book was released on 185? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Awful Shipwreck     Narrative of the Sufferings of the Crew of the Ship Francis Spaight  Etc

Download or read book Awful Shipwreck Narrative of the Sufferings of the Crew of the Ship Francis Spaight Etc written by John PALMER (Sailor.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Awful Shipwreck     Narrative of the Sufferings of the Crew of the Ship Francis Spaight  Etc    Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book Awful Shipwreck Narrative of the Sufferings of the Crew of the Ship Francis Spaight Etc Scholar s Choice Edition written by John Palmer and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Ghost Ship

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  • Author : Brian Hicks
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2004-06-01
  • ISBN : 0345478355
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Brian Hicks and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.

Book The Lost Story of the William and Mary

Download or read book The Lost Story of the William and Mary written by Gill Hoffs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emigrant ship William and Mary departed from Liverpool with 208 British, Irish, and Dutch emigrants in early 1853. Captained by young American Timothy Stinson, the vessel was sailing for New Orleans when the ship wrecked in the Bahamas in mysterious circumstances. Stinson and the majority of his crew sneaked away in lifeboats – murdering two of the emigrants with a hatchet as they did so – and reported the ship sunk with all on board lost. But the passengers kept the ship afloat and two days later were rescued by heroic wreckers as the ship went down. Now, over 160 years on, the tale of the two murdered in Bahamian waters and the hundreds who escaped thanks to kindly wreckers can finally be told. Stinson is no longer getting away with murder.

Book Awful Shipwreck

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  • Author : John Palmer (sailor.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1836
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Awful Shipwreck written by John Palmer (sailor.) and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Call from Death to Life

Download or read book A Call from Death to Life written by Marmaduke Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports from Committees

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  • Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1839
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Reports from Committees written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report from Select Committee on Shipwrecks of Timber Ships

Download or read book Report from Select Committee on Shipwrecks of Timber Ships written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century written by Sarah Craze and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.The pirate attack on the British brig Morning Star, en route from Ceylon to London, near Ascension Island in 1828 was one of the most shocking episodes of piracy in the nineteenth century. Although the captain and many members of the crew were murdered by the pirates led by the notorious Benito de Soto, some survived, escaped and sailed the ship back to Britain. This book, based on extensive original research in Britain, Spain and Brazil, retells the story of the Morning Star, provides much new detail and corrects errors present in the many contemporary accounts of the attack. It sets the attack in the wider context of piracy in the period, and discusses many issues which the episode highlights: how pirates' careers began and developed; how they were pursued and tried, often with difficulty; what became of their treasure; how stories of the attack and of the survivors were sensationalised; how the women passengers on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.

Book Dreadful Shipwreck

Download or read book Dreadful Shipwreck written by Thomas Ayres and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Awful Shipwreck  microform

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  • Author : John Fl 1837 Palmer
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014116956
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Awful Shipwreck microform written by John Fl 1837 Palmer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Awful Shipwreck

Download or read book Awful Shipwreck written by John Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cannibalism and Common Law

Download or read book Cannibalism and Common Law written by Brian Simpson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannibalism and the Common Law is an enthralling classic of legal history. It tells the tragic story of the yacht Mignonette, which foundered on its way from England to Australia in 1884. The killing and eating of one of the crew, Richard Parker, led to the leading case in the defence of necessity, R. v. Dudley and Stephens. It resulted in their being convicted and sentenced to death, a sentence subsequently commuted. In this tour de force Brian Simpson sets the legal proceedings in their broadest historical context, providing a detailed account of the events and characters involved and of life at sea in the time of sail. Cannibalism and the Common Law is a demonstration that legal history can be written in human terms and can be compulsive reading. This brilliant and fascinating book, a marvelous example of eareful historical detection, and first-class legal history, written by a master.

Book Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: